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Using a smartphone to control my TV (Panasonic Viera)
So my wife and I got a Panasonic VIERA TC-L47E50 the week after Thanksgiving and finally have everything set up the way we want it (for the most part). We have a basic HD cable package through WOW and have their dvr connected to the TV via an HDMI cable.
Panasonic has an android app that allows you to control the TV from your smartphone, its decent and some features are pretty cool actually, although the overall UI design is pretty terrible. That being said, I think I would use it a lot except for one thing: I change cable channels through the dvr, not the tv, so the channel change feature on the remote app does nothing. My guess is that there is no way around this, but I wanted to see if anyone had a solution...
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http://www.blinqtv.com/
I've heard good things about this.
Bowen, yeah I've started to look into some similar products. I probably wouldn't want something that plugged into my phone, but I know a few companies make IR blasters that connect to your phone or tablet or whatever via bluetooth.
For the moment though I think I'm stuck using a universal remote.